Tom Coburn
Just Scratch Behind the Ear(mark)s
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008The Wall Street Journal reports that President Bush will have a big decision to make this week. When he signed the earmark-laden omnibus spending bill last a couple weeks ago, he remarked that he was going to have his budget director
“…review options for dealing with the wasteful spending in the omnibus bill.”
After a bit of [...]
The Claremore Progress Gets it Wrong (Again)
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007In response to the President’s opposition to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) program, a Claremore Progress editorial states:
Senator Oren Hatch is a conservative Republican from Utah who has for years worked on health care issues in Congress. Hatch, working with Democrats, has reached a compromise on a state-federal partnership that provides health insurance [...]
Coburn Town Hall Meeting in Claremore Thursday Night
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
UPDATE:
Folks, due to an ambiguous email from Coburn’s office, I listed this as 8:00 PM. I just returned from the PAC where I was told the town hall meeting with this morning.
The email just said 8:00, and never in my wildest dreams did I think they would be having a town hall meeting at 8:00 [...]
Pass Me that Rainbow Stew (Obscure Merle Haggard Reference Warning!)
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006You gotta love Tom Coburn. This man is truly what a citizen-legislator should be. He has remarked that Republicans’ huge losses are due to thier abandoning the small-government principles of Reagan and Goldwater. I believe he is right.
Coburn, however, is in a position to do something about it. He and his ally, Jim DeMint of [...]
